Manufacturers / Integrators

KVH Industries is one of the last independent names still grinding it out in maritime satcom hardware and services. Based in Rhode Island and founded in the early 80s, it…

Leonardo is Italy’s contribution to the European defense club, though “contribution” might be generous. It is a sprawling, state-backed conglomerate that has never quite decided if it wants to be…

Lockheed Martin Space is the part of the world’s largest defense contractor that still pretends it’s a “space company” rather than a weapons manufacturer with a side hustle in orbit.…

Maxar Technologies builds and operates satellites that take pictures of the Earth. These pictures are not shared with the general public in real time. They are sold to governments and…

Mitsubishi Electric, better known as MELCO in the satellite world, is Japan’s workhorse manufacturer of GEO buses. It is not a flashy brand and rarely makes headlines, but it has…

Northrop Grumman is the other big defense contractor that insists it’s a “space company,” though in practice it’s a Frankenstein stitched together from legacy aerospace brands. They swallowed Orbital ATK…

OHB likes to describe itself as Germany’s scrappy independent satellite builder, the agile alternative to Airbus. In reality it’s the aerospace equivalent of a boutique consultancy that lucked into defense…

Omnispace is, and always has been, a spectrum story masquerading as a constellation. The company’s crown jewel is coordinated 2 GHz S-band MSS rights aligned with 3GPP NTN band n256…

Rheinmetall is the archetype of a German defense conglomerate that’s been waiting decades for Berlin to finally rediscover its wallet. For years, they made armored vehicles, shells, and the occasional…

Satcube is one of those Swedish outfits that proves you don’t need a billion-dollar LEO constellation to be useful, you just need to make ground gear that doesn’t feel like…